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Daylen Robinson scored 16 of his 21 points in the second half to help Central
Missouri win the NCAA Division II championship with an 84-77 over West Liberty in Evansville,
Ind.

Shawn Dyer led West Liberty (31-4), which is located near Wheeling, W.Va., with 19
points.

West Liberty built a 35-26 lead 18 minutes into the game before the Mules (30-5) came back to
tie the score at 37. Neither team led by more than five points in the second half until the final
20 seconds in a game that had 14 ties and nine lead changes.

Central Missouri also won the national title in 1984.

• A year after suffering a gruesome leg injury in the NCAA tournament,
Kevin Ware is transferring from Louisville.

Ware became the Cardinals’ rallying point on the way to the national title after he suffered a
broken right leg against Duke in a regional final. A rod was inserted in the leg and he tried to
come back this season, but he averaged just 1.7 points over nine games and eventually took a
medical redshirt.

Ware, a junior, wasn’t seen with the team the past several weeks.

• Former Weber State men’s basketball coach
Joe Cravens is facing a criminal charge after being accused of hitting a man with
a baseball bat in a dispute over a car accident in South Ogden, Utah.

Cravens, 60, compiled a 116-88 record as Weber State coach from 1999 to 2006.

Golf

Bowditch up by 3 shots; Mickelson withdraws

Steven Bowditch opened a three-stroke lead in the Texas Open in San Antonio, and
Phil Mickelson withdrew after 10 holes because of a pulled muscle in his right
side.

Bowditch, a 30-year-old Australian seeking his first PGA Tour title, shot a 4-under-par 68 to
reach 12 under.
Matt Kuchar (65) and
Andrew Loupe (70) were tied for second.

Mickelson withdrew after suffering a pulled muscle teeing off on his 10th hole of the round. He
hopes to play this week in the Houston Open, the last event before the Masters.

“I pulled a muscle on my downswing trying to hit it hard,” Mickelson said a statement. “It just
killed and it wouldn’t subside for 10 or 12 seconds. I’m going back to San Diego (for) a couple of
days and have a doctor look at it, but there’s really not much you can do for a pulled muscle. I
hope I’ll be OK to play the Shell in Houston, but I just don’t know.”

Mickelson was 1 over in the round and 4 over overall.

Pat Perez was fourth at 8 under after a 69.
Kevin Na, who had a 16 on the ninth hole three years ago, was 7 under after a
69.

•
Cristie Kerr made a 55-foot par-saving putt after hitting her final approach into
the water, giving her a share of the lead with
Lizette Salas after the third round of the LPGA Tour’s Kia Classic in Carlsbad,
Calif.

Kerr finished with a 2-under 70 to match Salas (69) at 10-under 206. After dropping a stroke on
the par-5 17th, Kerr holed out from the edge of the green on the par-4 18th after taking a penalty
drop.

Dori Carter, the second-round leader after a course-record 64, had a 74 to drop
into a tie for third at 8 under with
Anna Nordqvist (67),
Ayako Uehara (67) and
Shanshan Feng (69).

Third-ranked
Stacy Lewis was 7 under after a 73.

• Asia staged an improbable Ryder Cup-like comeback on the final day of the EurAsia Cup in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia, picking up seven of 10 points available in singles to tie the score at 10 and
share the trophy with Europe.

Asia, trailing 7-3 going into the final day, briefly took the lead at 91/2-81/2 before
Joost Luiten beat
Koumei Oda 1-up to pull the Europeans even.

The final match between Asia’s
Hideto Tanihara and Europe’s
Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano finished all square.

Europe, which led 5-0 after the opening four-ball competition on Thursday and by four points
after Friday’s foursomes, only needed 31/2 points yesterday to clinch the trophy. But Asia won
six of the singles matches and halved two others.